《外国文学评论》2013.1
• 1. 文学地图中的女王身体诗学：以《错误的戏剧》
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为例 Mapping the Queen’s Body: Literary Map in Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors （郭芳云） 2. ―去政治化”与“理智的行动主义”的破产 “Depoliticization‖ and the Failure of ―Rational Action‖: Dilemma in Abe Tomozi’s Peking （王升 远）
Beware of the Possible Pitfalls in academic paper Writing:
1. verbosity / scholasticism Martin Joos in his The Five Clocks: A Linguistic Excursion in the Five Styles of English Usage sets forth the five-point scale of formality in the language style: 1) frozen 2) formal 3) consultative 4) casual 5) intimate ―The most direct method and style is the most suggestive one.‖ -- Herbert Spencer, The Style of Writing “Words are like leaves, and where
Modern West Literature ( 梁展）
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《当代外国文学》.1
• 1. 论麦克尤恩《星期六》中的交往思想 • Approaching communicative Thoughts in
Ian MacEwan’s Saturday (李菊花） • 2. 文学的推销 • ---解读乔纳森.弗兰岑《自由》的商业性 • Marketing and Literature: Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom as a Case Study （陈 广兴）
《外国文学》2013.1
• 威廉.豪夫的《作为人的猴子》中的空间秩序逻辑 • Logic of the Spatial Order in Wilhelm Hauff’s • •
―Der Affe als Mensch‖ (王炳钧） 试论鲁宾施泰因”概念主义诗歌“的后现代诗学 特征 Poems as concepts: a Study of the Postmodernist Poetics in Lev Rubinstein’s Conceptualism (刘胤逵）
Secondary sources
• Secondary sources are primary sources which
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have been analyzed. They also include primary sources on which another writer has passed a comment. Book/article reviews Critical essays research papers It might be interesting to read bibliography in secondary sources to locate primary sources
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The Metamorphosis of Snow White: from its PreFairytale form to the Postmodern Text The Midwestern Town As a Symbol – a Study of Sherwood Anderson’s Fiction. Pouring a Lifetime into a Moment: A Study of Sherwood Anderson and His Art of Short Fiction Voices from the Gap: Alice Walker’s Fictional Exploration of the Cultural Identity of Black Women The Cowboy As an American Hero – A Study of the Popular Stereotype Figure in American Western Fiction
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Date of publication
• The year in which the book was published is
indicated on the bottom of the title page. Generally speaking, if all other things are equal, recent sources are preferable. However, knowledge changes more rapidly in some fields than in others. Ideas in the humanities tend to remain consistently longer than those in the sciences and technology, whose existing knowledge keeps updating thanks to new discoveries and technology.
Content
• A cursory inspection of the book---preface, •
introduction, index, footnotes, bibliography, and appendices---give some clue to its reliability. Spot reading will reveal whether the writer is objective or emotional; whether the writer tends to substantiate opinions and arguments with facts and with cross-references to other works; and whether the tone is impartial, analytical, cynical or sarcastic.
Invisible web database
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the web. However, a large collection of information contained in many databases which has become invisible to the popular databases. http:// www. Resourceshelf. com http:// www. CompletePlanet. Com http:// www. Findarticales. Com http:// www. Magportal. Com
The publisher
• The more established and well known the
publisher, the less likely it will be to publish unreliable woks. If no publisher is listed, or if the book has been published privately, you have every right to be scptical. Oxford UP// Cambridge UP// Routledge Penguin
periodicals
• Scholarly journals and publications by a
university press or an independent organization are more objective than a party’s paper, religious publications, sensationalistic publication. • Unsigned articles in popular magazines should be read very critically.
Free online Databases
• www. Allacademic. Com: sorted by title, abstract,
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keywords, authors http:// / title, subject http:// www. : search by keywords, browse by index http:// www. Bopcris. ac. Uk/ : browse by subject, search by key words and date range www. Findarticles. com: explore by topics and keywords
Chapter 3
Topic-choosing & Notes- taking
Friendly Advice
―A topic well chosen is half done.‖ ―Your subject can never be too narrow.‖
Selection of the Topic
The primary Source and the Secondary Source